Kelly Chen/ Shanghai Daily news

Shanghai’s digital government ranked third among 81 cities in a comprehensive evaluation on municipality websites for the year 2003 co-sponsored by the United Nations.

Among the websites of cities having a relatively high proportion of individual Internet users, Shanghai’s official website www.sh.gov.cn ranked second for usability, sixth for service quality, eighth for security and ninth for both integrity of content and public participation.

The assessment was jointly-conducted by the E-Governance Institute/ National Center for Public Productivity, Rutgers and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute, Sungkyunkwan University.

According to the data collected by the Internet indicators of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 100 of the most populous cities, including Hong Kong and Macao, representing countries and regions with over 160,000 individual Internet users, were chosen for the evaluation. Among these, only 81 that have government websites were actually  assessed.

The research result was published on the website of the United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance (www.unpan.org).

Related file: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/ASPA/UNPAN022839.pdf